‘To Light A Fire’ illuminates Fletcher Tucker’s Kin era
Fletcher Tucker has released his latest single, ‘To Light A Fire,’ the second preview from his forthcoming album Kin, out August 15 via Gnome Life Records. A vivid tale of survival, transformation, and spiritual awe, the track serves as a powerful centerpiece for an album rooted in Tucker’s animistic worldview and reverence for the natural world.
‘To Light A Fire’ unfolds in two halves. The first recounts a life-threatening blizzard in the Northern Sierra where Tucker and his wife found refuge beside a bonfire—an event made all the more profound by the later realization that she was, unbeknownst to them, newly pregnant. The second half of the song captures the birth of their daughter on the summer solstice, reframed through a mythic and ceremonial lens.
Fletcher Tucker discusses the track:
“The first half of this song depicts a moment of real life high drama, where my wife and I were caught in a white-out blizzard in the Northern Sierra. We survived the night beside a giant bonfire—we did not know my wife was only a few weeks pregnant at the time. Several months later on the summer solstice our daughter was born, the second part of this song describes her birth from a mythic, ceremonial vantage.”
‘To Light A Fire’ is available to stream now. Kin arrives August 15 via Gnome Life Records.
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